Brick-pallet



R. J. STUART. BRIGK PALLET. No. 414,926. Patented Nov. 12-, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT J. STUART, OF NEW HAMBURG, NEW YORK.

BRICK-PALLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,926, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed July 30, 1889 Serial No. 319,162. (No model.)

porting unburned bricks while being dried,

and hasfor its object to provide a brick-pallet, by means of which the several pallets in a column of pallets on a transportation-car may not only be arranged in a vertical col-' umn, but also will be held from being displaced by the swaying and lateral movement of the car in passing switches from one track to another and from other causes.

The invention consists in a brick-pallet constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brickpallet constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of a pair of pallets, one on top of the other. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of one end of modified form of pallet, and-Fig. 5 is a perspective View of another modification.

In the manufacture of brick one method has been to place the molded bricks upon pallets and place the latter in columns upon a car to be transported to a drying-building.

The pallets consist of slabs or shelves of metal with spacing projections or legs, by means of which the pallets are mounted in spaced positions on top of one another. It has been found that the pallets when so arranged in columns on a car are liable to be moved out of position endwise by the sway: ing of the car or the jolts'arising from-the car passing over switches or onto another track. To obviate this objection I provide a pallet of any form having vertical projections on its upper surface adjacent to its ends, and so arranged that the legs of a pallet resting on another pallet will engage the projections on the pallet beneath and prevent the upper pallet from moving endwise on the lower pallet.

The pallet may be provided with the vertical projections adjacent to its ends in any suitable manner. 7

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of drawings, 1 indicates a brick-pallet, preferably of metal, and consisting of the top'2 in the form of a slab or shelf and the legs or supports 3. The top supports 3, as here shown, consist of metallic strips bent to form a square, and connected at their overlapping ends and to the top 2 and its depending flanges 4 by rivets 5. The supports 3 may be of suflicient height to permit the circulation of hot air or other heating medium between the pallets resting on one another.

6 indicates vertical projections formed in the top 2 by punching out the metal and located at such distance adjacent to the ends of the top 2 as tobring the projections 6 outside of and close to the supports 3 of a pallet resting on the top 2.

The projections 6 serve as stops to hold a pallet resting on another pallet from endwise movement arising from the swaying or jolting of a car on which the pallets are piled in columns. They also enable the pallets to be placed in a straight column when piling them one above another.

In use the undried bricks are placed on the pallets in layers from end to end thereof, the bricks lying lengthwise across the pallet.

The pallets are placed in columns extending across a platform-car and are locatedclose together at their sides. The lower ends of the supports 3, being located adjacent to the stops 6, prevent the pallets from being moved endwise on each other by the lateral movement of the car.

While I have shown the projections 6 in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, any suitable form of stop may be employed, as in Fig; 4, where two projections 6 are punched up from the top 2 instead of one, or as in Fig. 5, where a strip of angleiron 7 is riveted to the top 2 and extends across the same.

Having thus fully described 'my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A brick-pallet having vertical projections on its top adjacent to the ends thereof to form stops against which the legs or supports ofthe superposed pallets rest, as and for the purpose specified.

. ROBERT J. STUART.

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